Welcome to the 2009

Cornell Integrated Crop and Pest Management Guidelines for Vegetable Crops

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Cornell Vegetable Team
http://www.hort.cornell.edu/extension/commercial/vegetables/vegeteam/index.html

About this site...

The 2009 Integrated Crop and Pest Management Recommendations Website is designed to enhance information provided in the hardcopy book through links to fact sheets, photographs, and other relevant data.

Linked websites:

• NYSAES Integrated Pest Management Program
• The Northeastern Pest Management Center has links to information on IPM in the northeast and throughout the US
• University of California Statewide IPM Project
• Virginia Tech Weed Identification Guide
• Cornell International Institute for Food, Agriculture, and Development: Global Crop Pests Identification and Information
  
• BIOLOGICAL CONTROL: A Guide to Natural Enemies in North America
• Plant Disease Diagnosis Clinic
• IPM Vegetable Fact Sheets
  
• Sustainable Farming Connection
• Appropriate Technology Transfer for Rural Areas
• Measuring Environmental Impact of Pesiticides

• Crop Data Management Systems - click on the "CDMS" button in the Recommendations banner.

• New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC)
• Vegetable MD Online
• Northeast Weather Association
  

Keyword Search

A keyword search for website is also provided for your convenience. It can be reached by clicking on the "Search" button in the banner.

Contents

Clicking on the "Content" button in the Guidelines banner will bring you to a list of Chapter 1 though 28. From this page you can reach any of the general information and commodities chapters. Alternatively, you can browse through sequential chapters by using the "Next Chapter" button at the bottom of each page.

NOTE:

Every effort has been made to provide correct, complete, and up-to-date pest management information for New York State at the time this publication was released for printing (October, 2008). Changes in pesticide registrations, regulations, and guidelines occurring after publication are available in county cooperative extension offices or from the Pesticide Management Education Program web site (http://pmep.cce.cornell.edu/).

Trade names used herein are for convenience only. No endorsement of products is intended, nor is criticism of unnamed products implied.

These guidelines are not a substitute for pesticide labeling. Always read the product label before applying any pesticide.

The guidelines in this bulletin reflect the current (and past) authors best effort to interpret a complex body of scientific research, and to translate this into practical management options. Following the guidance provided in this bulletin does not assure compliance with any applicable law, rule, regulation or standard, or the achievement of particular discharge levels from agricultural land.

Updates and additional information for this Guideline are available athttp://www.nysaes.cornell.edu/recommends/.

Content Editors:
Stephen Reiners (Department of Horticultural Sciences, Geneva) and Curtis H. Petzoldt (NYS IPM Program)

Discipline Editors

Entomology: Coordinator: Brian A. Nault (Entomology – Geneva).
Contributors: Michael P. Hoffmann (Entomology – Ithaca), Anthony M. Shelton (Entomology – Geneva), and Ward M. Tingey (Entomology – Ithaca).

Plant Pathology: : Coordinator:  Thomas A. Zitter (Plant Pathology – Ithaca). Contributors: George S. Abawi (Plant Pathology – Geneva), Helene R. Dillard (Plant Pathology – Geneva), Margaret T. McGrath (Long Island Horticultural Research and Extension Center, Riverhead), and Christine D. Smart (Plant Pathology – Geneva).

Weed Management: Coordinator: Robin R. Bellinder (Horticulture – Ithaca).

Vegetable Culture: Coordinator: Stephen Reiners (Horticultural Sciences – Geneva). Contributors: Donald E. Halseth (Horticulture – Ithaca), and Anu Rangarajan (Horticulture – Ithaca).

IPM: Coordinator: Curtis H. Petzoldt (NYS IPM Program).

Pesticides: Coordinator: Michael Helms (Pesticide Management Education Program, Ithaca) Contributors: Ronald Gardner and William G. Smith (Pesticide Management Education Program, Ithaca).

Pesticide Calibration: Coordinator: Andrew J. Landers (Entomology – Geneva).

Animal Management: : Coordinator: Paul D. Curtis (Natural Resources – Ithaca).

Webmaster:

Curtis Petzoldt

Special Appreciation

The contributions of faculty and staff from the Departments of Horticultural Sciences (Geneva), Horticulture (Ithaca), Plant Pathology, Entomology, and Cornell Cooperative Extension are appreciated.

This publication is issued to further Cooperative Extension work mandated by acts of Congress of May 8 and June 30, 1914. It was produced with the cooperation of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Cornell Cooperative Extension, New York State College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, New York State College of Human Ecology, and New York State College of Veterinary Medicine, at Cornell University. Cornell Cooperative Extension provides equal program and employment opportunities. Helene Dillard, Director.

Alternative formats of this publication are available on request to persons with disabilities who cannot use the printed format. For information call or write the Office of the Director, Cornell Cooperative Extension, 365 Roberts Hall, Ithaca, NY 14853 (607-255-2237).

This information is presented with the understanding that no product discrimination is intended and no endorsement of any product mentioned or criticism of unnamed products is implied.

To order paper copies of this publication, contact your local Cornell Cooperative Extension office or the Pesticide Management Education Program Educational Resources Distribution Center,95 Brown Road, Room 223, Box 1043, Ithaca, NY 14850. Phone 607-255-7282, fax 607-255-7311, e-mail: patorder@cornell.edu, or on-line at: http://hosts.cce.cornell.edu/pmep/shop/

First chapter Integrated Pest Management

Maintained by Curtis Petzoldt, New York State IPM Program. Address comments or questions to vegrec@yahoo.com
Last modified January 14, 2009.